Recent content by Dirty Hippy

I think there's far more to your questions than you realize. Basic tactics are such an extremely simple part of combat that it's hard to answer in an honest way. Being able to remember and execute your basic tactics and follow orders under extreme duress is the real problem. All the training in...

Former US soldier here. Video games did not prepare me for the first time I did something as simple as throw a grenade.

Maybe I'm strange, but protestors blocking off places I need to be does not make me want to give them whatever they want. Their cause won't be remembered, just that some jackasses were in my way.

The whole thing was just to train planners. In a way that is both fun and inoffensive (In that you don't have folks worrying about why you've got a plan for attacking them.)